Word: ustinov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Would-be customers are willing to wait eight weeks for delivery and pay up to $4,375 for the privilege of whizzing along no-speed-limit German autobahns at 100 m.p.h. and more. "BMW drivers drive like hell," says a company official. The drivers include Actor Peter Ustinov, Politicians Franz-Josef Strauss and Rainer Barzel, as well as the Swiss police. Above all, a widening circle of modern Germans on the go, professional men and young executives embrace it as the "Auto for Men," their symbol of class and style...
...Unknown Soldier and His Wife. The only evil of war left unmentioned in Peter Ustinov's three-hour verbal artillery barrage at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater is the antiwar play. Despite a sprinkling of quips, Ustinov lays down a lethal set of pacifist platitudes that ultimately calls for an intellectual gas mask...
Bertolt Brecht, on whom Ustinov relies heavily for his inspiration, was content with the Thirty Years' War for Mother Courage. Unknown Soldier gobbles up 2,000 years of battle history, from Roman times to the present. Small wonder that digestive torpor soon sets in. Ustinov's hero is an unknown soldier who is always dying just before his recurringly pregnant wife can give birth. Like Brecht, Ustinov appears to believe that war is a continuation of the class struggle. The mighty spill the blood of the lowly in a kind of cruel game, a black farce...
MICHELANGELO: THE LAST GIANT (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). The second part of the life of the master is narrated by José Ferrer, with Peter Ustinov as the voice of Michelangelo. This covers the 23 years from the end of his work in the Sistine Chapel to his death...
...Ustinov said that subsidies should go for long-term projects, such as opera houses, "that end up paying for themselves...